I have treated people of all shapes, sizes, levels of fitness and ages. What I have found over and over again is a complete lack of understanding of what an Osteopath actually treats. Which is why I have written this ‘ Runners Guide to Osteopathy’ to help explain some of the different conditions an osteopath…
All too often in this profession, we see many endurance athletes in the middle of a training block preparing for that 10k, half marathon, marathon, ultra, triathlon, ironman. Training is all going quite nicely, and then bam. Injury strikes out of nowhere. Quite often, when questioning the athletes about what their training programme looks like,…
After the Great South Run, I stopped running and exercising in any way shape or form partly due to injury however mainly to a real feeling of laziness and can’t be bothered. As a result, I had put on a fair amount of weight and at the start of lockdown I started eating all sorts…
When I was at the national running shows I heard the term Maranoia for the first time but what is it? The definition that I have seen is that Maranoia is “The fear of something going wrong in a marathon?” but I think this term could be used in any context, whether it an Ultra,…